El paisaje de la novela negra de Dublín en la serie de novelas Quirke de Benjamin Black

Autores/as

  • Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides Universidad de Huelva

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2020-9702

Palabras clave:

Ecocrítica, coexistencia, novela de detectives, paisajes urbanos, Dublín en la novela negra

Resumen

Este artículo examina la serie de novelas “Quirke”, escrita por Benjamin Black, desde una perspeciva ecocrítica. Las historias, localizadas en el Dublín de los años 50 del siglo pasado, están protagonizadas por un patólogo que investiga los asesinatos de las víctimas que llegan a la morgue del Hospital de la Sagrada Familia. Este artículo pretende demostrar que al rastrear exhaustivamente la ciudad a través de los crímenes que se suceden en ella, el autor sugiere la existencia de una amplia red de acciones criminales ejecutadas y supervisadas por distintos agentes de poder y violencia de la época. También se argumenta que Black utiliza de manera consistente las nociones de coexistencia e interdependencia para construir la personalidad del protagonista, en tanto que el narrador insiste en su creciente indignación y cinismo ante los artefactos de poder que habitan su ciudad. Por todo ello, las novelas sugieren que la relacionalidad y la interdependencia implican también desenmarañar esa red de poder y control, para negociar la responsabilidad social y crear un clima de mayor justicia y solidaridad.

Biografía del autor/a

Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides, Universidad de Huelva

Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Huelva, Spain. She has conducted extensive research on the intersection of gender, nation, family and social history in contemporary Ireland as well as on the representation of single maternity in Irish fiction, cinema and art. Her publications include Sólo ellas: familia y feminismo en la novela irlandesa contemporánea (2003) and the co-edition of Espacios de Género (2005), Single Motherhood in Twentieth Century Ireland: Cultural, Historical and Social Essays (2006), Gendering Citizenship and Globalization (2011), Experiencing Gender: International Approaches (2015) and Words of Crisis/ Crisis of Words: Ireland and the Representation of Critical Times (2016). She has also published on motherhood and women’s corporeality, concentrating on the work of Catherine Dunne, Mary Rose Callaghan, Edna O’Brien and Mary Leland, among other authors. Her current research interests focus on the repression of the institutionalised body, the cultural manifestations of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries and the social dimension of John Banville’s crime fiction as Benjamin Black. She is a member of the Research Project “Bodies in Transit 2: Genders, Mobilities, Interdependencies”, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.

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31-10-2020

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Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides. (2020). El paisaje de la novela negra de Dublín en la serie de novelas Quirke de Benjamin Black. Estudios Irlandeses, 15(2), 90–101. https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2020-9702

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Vol. 15 Núm. 2 (2020): Issue 15.2. Eco-Fictions, The Animal Trope and Irish Studies - 2020

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